Worst lede ever

Former Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller died doing what he loved.

 

Not a lede, but just as bad in a cutline:

"Members of the City High School soccer team pay tribute to Sept. 11 terrorist attacks."

 

Did that cutline go with the photo of the Palestinian fucktards who cheered the attacks?

 

That's funny. I had a reporter do the same thing when I was an editor at the college paper.

 

I had two different stringers on their first football Friday with us turn in identical ledes: "On a hot and muggy night ...."

Shame of it was the stories were edited by two different people and the identical ledes weren't caught on the page until it was too late. The stories ran right next to each other.

 

At least it wasnt a dark and stormy night.

God knows how many of these ledes would have gotten into the paper.

 

Fixed.[/goodmorningvietnamfan]

 

Long ago, at the detroit free press, a hockey writer wrote that a hockey player (name long forgotten): ...and hockey go together like the numbers 6 and 9 overlap."
Fortunately, that lead never saw the light of day.

 

Edited for clarity:

 

If I die of a heart attack while in bed with my wife, I want my current paper to write, "he died doing the one he loved."

Worst lede: Last year a stringer turned this in during football season, "XXX High School running back lead the Broncos to a 35-13 win, as he gained 138 yards rushing on the ground."

Damn, I always thought the best running backs run in the air.

I kid you not, second largest paper in the state once wrote about a Olympic swimmer who won a medal.
"XXXX XXXX is one of the best breaststrokers in the world, and she's got a bronze medal to prove it."

Damn, I had to take a cold shower after that one!

 

Found this in the archives of where I work from about three years before I got there. It's a football preview.

"God, Podunk Hills is good. And boy, can they run the ball!"

I once had a journalism prof. say "write the way people talk," but this is taking it too far.

 

"It was David versus Goliath Saturday night, and the big guy was too much for the little guy this time."